Overview

• Divya Sikarwar’s partially decomposed body was recovered from the Kwari/Kunwari river near Galetha after an SDRF search that resumed Sunday morning.
• Her father, Bharat (Bantu) Sikarwar, is in police custody and admitted transporting the body wrapped in plastic, tying it to a stone, and dumping it in the river.
• Investigators say the parents gave contradictory accounts, first citing electrocution from a ceiling fan and later suicide, before the father’s admission about disposal.
• Forensic examiners suspect a point‑blank gunshot to the head; the body has been sent to Gwalior for autopsy, and a murder case will follow based on the report.
• The weapon remains untraced and two younger siblings are missing, as police probe a suspected honour‑killing linked to the teen’s relationship with a lower‑caste youth.